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McCubbin, Hamilton I.; Patterson, Joan M. – 1981
Recent developments in family stress and coping research and a review of data and observations of families in a war-induced crisis situation led to an investigation of the relationship between a stressor and family outcomes. The study, based on the Double ABCX Model in which A (the stressor event) interacts with B (the family's crisis-meeting…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Behavior Patterns, Child Rearing, Coping
McCubbin, Hamilton I.; And Others – 1978
Family stress theory as a framework for family policy and family impact analysis is compatible with, and a logical development within, a broader ecological context of immediate and wider social environments. The central assumption of the family stress framework is that families have the capacity to organize a variety of supports--economic, social,…
Descriptors: Adaptation Level Theory, Behavior Patterns, Family Relationship, Family (Sociological Unit)